Sofya Levitsky-Weitz is a playwright and TV/film writer who splits her time between Los Angeles and Brooklyn. She has an original series in development with Lionsgate and Peacock (co-created with Sarah Blush) – an erotic thriller/stoner romcom. She earned three Writers Guild nominations for her work on two seasons of FX’s Emmy Nominated THE BEAR and Hulu’s THE DROPOUT and a win for THE BEAR for Outstanding Comedy Series. She has also written for GASLIT on Starz and is currently serving as a writer/producer for a new Netflix limited series about the origin of Twitter. She has projects in development with OBB and Hat Trick Productions and has worked on multiple features with Michael Showalter including The Eyes of Tammy Faye. As a playwright, Sofya’s work has been developed in Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. Her play this party sucks (on the 2019 Kilroy’s List) is optioned for the stage/film & TV rights by Mark Gordon Pictures and will be commercially produced in the coming year. Most recently, her play be mean to me was produced at Northwestern University for their theatrical season and she was a guest artist in summer 2023 at Chautauqua Theatre Festival with her play Cannabis Passover (2020 O’Neill Finalist). She has been a 2018-2019 Jerome Fellow and 2019-2022 Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis and is an alum of the Obie Award winning collective EST/Youngblood. She is a MacDowell Fellow and has been in residence at Barn Arts and TOFTE Lake. She is also an upcoming panelist for the 2023 Austin Film Festival. She got her MFA in Writing for the Screen & Stage from Northwestern University, where she now serves on the Advisory Board.